In September and October 2024, the Symbiota Support Hub (SSH) and the Consortium of Vertebrate Collections (CVColl) collaborated to grow and advance this portal community.
Campaign Summary
In September and October 2024, the Symbiota Support Hub worked closely with Dakota Rowsey, the CVColl Portal Manager, to host a Portal Advancement Campaign for the Consortium of Small Vertebrate Collections (CSVColl.org). Office hours enabled technical support and networking opportunities for members of this community. Notably, as part of this campaign, the community decided to rebrand to reflect its growing membership. Following a community vote, to which 24 individuals responded, the portal was renamed to the Consortium of Vertebrate Collections (“CVColl”) on October 16, 2024 (results). The Symbiota Support Hub extends sincere thanks to all community members who proposed new names for the portal, as well those who voted in the renaming survey.
Additional campaign accomplishments included:
- Updating the portal’s code base to Symbiota 3.1, which updated the portal’s look and feel, as well as activated a suite of new features
- Adding 4.5k names to the portal’s taxonomic thesaurus
- Sending 1,195 new records to GBIF
- Adding 24 URLs to collections with records in GRSciColl (example)
- Engaging 17 portal community members at one or more Office Hours meetings
- Updating 13 contacts
- Publishing 1 new collection to GBIF (shout-out to SJSU!)
Campaign Documents
Office Hours were held to facilitate community discussion and knowledge sharing. Recordings of meetings held as part of this event and links to related resources are shared below.
- Week 1: Campaign Introduction, Portal Housekeeping, Rebranding Discussion
- Meeting Recording: https://youtu.be/GpOjcdZppYk
- Symbiota Resources: symbiota.org/help-resources
- Portal Rebranding Survey: https://forms.gle/qvRfs5xgNjs8v5Ju8
- Week 2: Rollout of Symbiota 3.1 & Data Cleaning
- Symbiota 3.1 Overview: symbiota.org/symbiota-3-1
- Related Resources: Data Quality Toolkit | Data Cleaning | Public Feedback | Batch Editing
- If you use CSVColl for live data management, be on the lookout for an email from SSH this week!
- Week 3: Rollout of Symbiota 3.1 Continued & Data Publishing
- Symbiota 3.1 Overview: symbiota.org/symbiota-3-1
- Related Resources: How to Become a GBIF Publisher | Data Publishing Instructions | Data Publishing Playlist
- If you’re not already publishing to GBIF or iDigBio, be on the lookout for an email from SSH this week!
- Week 4: Campaign Wrap-up
- Meeting Recording: https://youtu.be/cDOLFKtNMXI
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